A truly cheap and abundant bioplastic?
Bioderived materials usually have an economic cost that significantly increases the final price of the products in which they are used. Scientists around the world are still trying to create new sustainable materials, but unless these materials are scalable and...
High prices of recycled plastic put UK producers in check
The extraordinarily high prices could mean virgin plastics will still be cheaper than recycled ones, even after paying the UK’s virgin material levy. High prices for recycled plastic, which have reached record levels in the last twelve months, coupled with the...
Shortage of supplies and containers: a challenge for global supply
The United States faces a historic container gridlock. China, South Korea and Thailand are the three countries that supply Mexico in high seasons Due to the shortage of supplies for the production of electronic devices, the lack of containers, the increase in...
Ecological electric vehicle charging with mass balanced polycarbonate
The EVBox Group will use Covestro’s Makrolon RE polycarbonate, which comes from recycled waste and residues, for charging infrastructures. In order to drive the transition to electric mobility, Covestro continues to develop innovative material solutions and has...
Barcelona uses non-recyclable plastic to pave a street
The new material, explained the Barcelona City Council, has a higher resistance than normal pavements and has a better behavior when passing buses. The Barcelona City Council, in Spain, is implementing creative and innovative ways to reuse non-recyclable plastic, all...
Plastic from algae, Sway’s bet
According to Sway, seaweed grows up to 60 times faster than other crops on land, and can remove up to 20 times more carbon from the air than forests The American startup Sway could have found a suitable material to replace a considerable number of plastic in the...
Arkema presents its new PA 11 «biocircular» medical grade
The new polymer, the company explained, is rigid enough to replace metal parts in surgical devices and has a much lower climate change impact than comparable fossil-based plastics. Arkema launched a new Polyamide (PA) 11 developed for medical applications that...
Packaging waste and its second life: strategies for its recycling and reuse in new applications
The high demand for plastics in recent decades in all sectors, due to the high performance of this material, has led to the production in 2020 of 17.8 tons of packaging waste, according to data from the Plastics, the Facts report 2020 from PlasticEurope. This has led...
Outlook on the Global Plastic Composites Market to 2028
The high demand for Polyethylene (PE) in the packaging industry has mainly contributed to the growth of the packaging end-use segment The size of the global market for plastic compounds could reach a value of 98.65 billion dollars by 2028. Additionally, it is...
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